Word: nine
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...squash team keeps doing what it has done 68 straight times previously--namely, win. The racquetmen take out Yale, 6-3, and earn their sixth-straight nine-man and Ivy League championships. "This team didn't have the talent of the past four or five teams," Harvard Assistant Coach John Anz says. "But they worked hard all year to get at the level of past teams...
...outdone, the women's squash team bumps off Princeton, 8-1, to capture the Ivy League and national nine-woman titles...
...group of rebels presented a nine-point petition calling for his resignation to the five-member directorate of the contras. Bermudez's ties with Somoza's dreaded National Guard have long been a source of friction within the contras, and some observers speculated that Adolfo Calero, a member of the directorate, may have encouraged the guerrilla revolt...
Hamilton's search for Salinger leads him into the author's fiction, where he finds autobiographical inspiration. The city and suburban settings of Nine Stories reflect Salinger's Manhattan youth and his adult stint among the commuters of Westport, Conn. The soldier in the magical For Esme -- with Love and Squalor suffers from a case of nerves not unlike the symptoms Salinger described in a letter to Hemingway. Models are identified for members of the Glass family, the precocious and haunting characters who ride the time loops of stories as early as A Perfect Day for Bananafish and as late...
Marching behind a 10-ft. wooden crucifix, 500 workers last week ended their nine-day occupation of Gdansk's Lenin Shipyard -- and with it Poland's most serious outbreak of labor unrest in seven years. The strikers failed to win any of their demands, which included a 40% pay increase and recognition of the now banned Solidarity trade union. "We are not leaving the shipyard in triumph," declared the strike committee. "But we are leaving with our heads high...